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A Space Odyssey: Lessons on What Makes for an Endlessly Repeatable Movie

July 10 , 2020 . By Christian Tesfaye

There are movies and then there are pieces of art that have defined what cinema is. One of those movies is, inarguably, at least if we go by critic’s best-movies-of-all-time picks, 2001: A Space Odyssey. There are some ways of telling if a movie is t...

HOLLYWOOD’S SPIELBERGIAN RECOVERY

June 27 , 2020 . By Christian Tesfaye

Over the past weekend, the US box office got a blast from the past. Still reeling from the COVID-19 induced lockdowns that led to the closure of theatres across the world, cinemas in the US opened with old hits from Hollywood’s wonder boy, Steven Spielb...

Rick and Morty: A Back to the Future Fitting of the Times

June 20 , 2020 . By Christian Tesfaye

While The Simpsons and Family Guy have become caricatures of their earlier season selves, with BoJack Horseman (one of the best-written shows of all time) having bitten the dust earlier this year, and with South Park, Archer and Bob’s Burgers having nev...

THE WILLOUGHBYS AND RICKY GERVAIS

May 23 , 2020 . By Christian Tesfaye

While The Simpsons and Family Guy have become caricatures of their earlier season selves, with BoJack Horseman (one of the best-written shows of all time) having bitten the dust earlier this year, and with South Park, Archer and Bob’s Burgers having nev...

EXTRACTION, POLITICALLY PROBLEMATIC BUT BRILLIANT ACTION FLICK

May 2 , 2020 . By Christian Tesfaye

Ever since TV became a common household product, everyone in the theatre industry has been counting the number of days when cinema would no longer appear on the big screen. Digital technology has greatly accelerated the trend toward home entertainment, wh...

Binge-watching: Time Well Killed

April 17 , 2020 . By Christian Tesfaye

The opportunity to binge watch shows rarely presents itself. But times are different now. Most of us, depending on the sanity of our respective governments, are under some type of lockdown, and movie theatres across the world have been shutdown. Like all...

JOE EXOTIC'S EXOTIC SHOW

April 12 , 2020

Anyone with sufficient access to an internet connection has heard of Netflix’s trippy documentary, Tiger King. It is a strange film with strange people. Watching it is like smoking a cigarette. We know it is not good for us, and we know that we are f...

CONTAGION: A PROPHESY

April 4 , 2020 . By Christian Tesfaye

Steven Soderbergh had been a prolific filmmaker who made movies on such a diverse range of subjects that he was at some point bound to predict the future. There will inevitably be a countless number of movies made about the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19...

Enena Bete, Small but Innovative

March 28 , 2020 . By Christian Tesfaye

In an ironic twist of fate, the best Ethiopian cinema has to offer is actually hidden from view, almost impossible to unearth and value. The likes of Teza and Lamb are lucky enough to find international recognition and thus local appreciation. But ther...


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Understandable Pain, Hard to Swallow Destruction

My Opinion | Jul 10,2020

Affront Against the People

Sunday with Eden | Jul 10,2020

Golden Rule, Antidote to Our Instincts for Violence

Agenda | Jul 10,2020

Collateral Damage in the Wake of Massive Protests

Editorial | Jul 10,2020

Where Did it all Go Wrong? Lessons from History

Editorial

Where Did it all Go Wrong? Lessons from History

July 10 , 2020

When the situation was manageable, it was neglected, and now that it is thoroughly o...

With Cat out of Bag, Better to Double Down on Statehood

June 27 , 2020

In the popular imagination, Ethiopia's current federal organisation was the brainchil...

Egypt Changes Water Security Strategy, the Answer to Nile Dispute

June 20 , 2020

The messages from Washington, DC are unambiguous. They urge Ethiopia to relent to Egy...

History May Look Back on this Time as Needless Moment

June 17 , 2020

It is characteristic of the general climate of confusion the year 2020 has set in Eth...

Sunday With Eden

Golden Rule, Antidote to Our Instincts for Violence

It is heartbreaking to witness the distressing developments within the Ethiopian stat...

All the Single Male Parents

Men and women, one much more than the other, are biased against women. This is one of the key reasons fundamental improvement has become una...

Life Matters

Understandable Pain, Hard to Swallow Destruction

I find most news stories to be dull and boring. Imagine my surprise then when my uncle called me up at 8...

The Hypocrite's Dilemma

In the early hours of a misty morning, two middle-aged female residents of the poorly electrified condominium of Bole Bulbula sit on their s...

Agenda

Collateral Damage in the Wake of Massive Protests

July 10 , 2020 . By MAYA MISIKIR 

Alem Abebe was up extra early on June 30, 2020. She had a friend to visit at Qaliti C...

Gasoil Shortage Irks Drivers, Gas Stations

June 27 , 2020 . By SEBLE WONDEMAGEGN

Over the last week, main roads of the capital were crowded and the traffic was heavy...

Onion Price Rises as Supply from Farmers, Sudan Falls

June 20 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

On the sunny Wednesday afternoon of May 17, 2020, the newly opened vegetable market i...

A Moment of Silence

June 14 , 2020 . By MAYA MISIKIR 

The narrow streets of Gojam Sefer in Lideta wind and split into even narrower roads every few metres. The packed houses lined side by side b...

Gallery

IN-PICTURE: LAUREATE'S RECEPTION  

December 14 , 2019

President Sahle-Work Zewde hosted a state dinner reception to congratulate and welcome the Prime Minister on his return home from Oslo, Norway, where he accepted the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize two days earlier...

PM Abiy Ahmed (PhD) at a Gala Dinner Called for the Awarding of the Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize

May 6 , 2019

Faces, Voices of Addis Abeba

April 26 , 2019

Mourning Nation, Grieving World

March 17 , 2019

THE FINISH LINE

March 16 , 2019

Pizza Hut Triples Branches

February 2 , 2019

Commentaries

What Internet Shutdowns Say About the State

Taken for granted in the general tumult of the recent crisis is the notion that the f...

Lack of Long Game, Achilles Heel of Ethiopia's Politics

Social reengineering is a complex enterprise. It hardly ever goes the way it is envis...

Fineline

Getachew Reda . . .

Getachew Reda, the increasingly combative spin doctor of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), says he is no longer optimistic about...

There were a series of meetings by almost all the chiefs of the regional states in...

After they made a portentous decision last week in passing a resolution at the House of Federation where...

Fortune news

Ethiopia Kicks off Large-Scale Rice Production

July 10 , 2020 . By HENOK TERECHA

The Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research has begun working with farmers acros...

Smallholder Farmers Join Hands to Boost Productivity

July 10 , 2020 . By HENOK TERECHA

With support from the Agricultural Transformation Agency, smallholder farmers in Arsi...

Central Bank Gives Green Light to Debub Global's New VP

July 10 , 2020 . By MAYA MISIKIR 

The National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) has approved the appointment of Fekadu Shigutie a...

Authority Sets Hefty Fines on Transport Law Offenders

July 10 , 2020 . By HENOK TERECHA

Freight transport companies or owners who charge freight tariffs above the prevailing...

In-Picture

PEACOCK GATES

April 4 , 2020

GOOD SAMARITAN

April 4 , 2020

PART RECREATION

March 14 , 2020

BUS STOPS

March 7 , 2020

To the Brim

February 22 , 2020

Sanctioned Graffiti

June 20 , 2020

Yonas Berehe and Andualem Moges, artists of Ya Studio, are painting street art for the city in Megenagna, after getting the green light from Yeka District. They are painting portraits of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD), Lia Tadesse (MD) and Deputy Ma...

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